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"Would you want me to?" she asked

"Well, that's hard to say," he replied, knitting his brows "I hardly

know I think it depends on you But if you did do such ouldn't

you be happier?"

"Happier! Why Glenn, I'd be miserable! But listen It wasn't my

beautiful and useless hand I wanted you to see It was "

"Oh!--Well?" he went on, slowly

"I've never had it off since you left New York," she said, softly

"You gave it to o Do you remember? It was on my

twenty-second birthday You said it would take two months' salary to pay

the bill"

"It sure did," he retorted, with a hint of hu the war it was not so--so very hard to wear this ring as

an engage more earnest

"But after the war--especially after your departure West it was terribly

hard to be true to the significance of this betrothal ring There was a

let-down in all women Oh, no one need tell me! There was And men were

affected by that and the chaotic condition of the ti the year of your absence Prohibition was a joke--Well, I